The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-10-02
GEORGIA AND FLORIDA.
NEWS OF THE TWO STATES TOLD
IN PARAGRAPHS.

jerome Burnett Convicted of Volun-
tary Manslaughter- Clarksville &c
Have Hanging in November-A
Child Killed by Falling from Swing
in Thomas County-A 16-Year-Old
Boys Contempt of Court.
GEORGIA.
The turnip crop in Forsyth county is al
most an entire failure.
G. NJ Booth, of Athens, has 100 fine hogs.
Ten of the number will weigh 1000 pounds.
At Clarksville, T. c. Justice, the slayer of
j. B. Goddard, has been found guilty of
murder, and will be hanged some time in
November.
Capt F. NJ. Wright, of Lincoln county,
caught thirty foxes in thirty-six
dumps The boys Just beyond him have
caught about twenty five or thirty.
Judge Allen Fort is sick with fever, and
there is doubt aboat his being able to pre-
side at Webster court this week. He has
been making efforts to get another judge to
preside for him during the session.
The jury in the Burnett Hancock case,
tried in the Crawford Superior Court at
Knoxville, brought in a verdict at II
o'clock on Thursday night, and found
Jerome Burnett guilty of voluntary man
slaughter.
A contract has been entered into by re-
sponsible citizens of Waycross, with T. NJ
Dexter, of Brunswick, to bore to the depth
of 800 feet for artesian water for a certain
sum, and if a flow Of water is not obtained,
TO go deeper at a given rate per foot.
Rev. J. V. NJ. Morris administered the
ordinance of baptism to fourteen applicants
last Sunday at Prices ford, on the Appala-
chez river, near Pennington, being mem
bers who had joined during the recent pro
Is.rh IL I,l,
both.
A petition, signed by quite number of
the citizens of Harlem, has gone up to the
General Assembly asking an amendment TO
the charter of the town, allowing an in
crease of tax on real estate sufficient to meet
the demands of the town authorities in pay
ing the salary of a night Waterman.
At Dawson Friday, the stock of goods be-
longing to Messrs. Williams q Davis, in
voiced at $500, was sold by the Sheriff for
SO, 700. They were purchased by G. w
Eubanlzs, who has employed, D. d. Davis,
one of the dissolved firm, to assist him in
dispoSing of the goods at the old stand of
Williams q Davis.
At Jasper, last week, the grand jury re-
ported a witness to the Judge for refusing to
answer their questions The Judge i'm
prisoned him for contempt. After staying
in Jail two days he was brought before the
Brown sentenced him TO jail for twenty
days, and then to give a 300 bond for his
appearance at the next term to answer and
testify. He is youth of about l6 years.
A very unexpected and fatal accident oc-
CURED at Alexander, nine miles east of
Waynesboro, Thursday. Master Clarence
Lewis, son of Mr. Wilbur Lewis, started
out shooting, and while walking along a
pathway with his gun upon his shoulder, a
ri ahp al fn1I
just behind he stumbled and fell, as he did
so the gun was discharged and the girl re-
ceived the entire charge in her body, killing
her instantly.
At Dawson Friday the stockholders of the
First. State Bank of Dawson met at the
bank building and organized under the char
ter obtained during the present term of the
Legislature. Messrs. j. b. Perry, j. r.
Mercer, o. B. Stevens, A. J. Baldwin and
A. J. Carver were elected directors After
adjournment Of the stockholders, the direc-
tors elected Mr.. j. B. Perry President. and
Mr.. j. r. Mercer Cashier. The bank has a
capital stock of $51, 200.
r. T. Hall, living near Spring Hill church,
in Thomas county, lost his little daughter,
Lila, on Saturday, Sept. % under very sad
circumstances. She, with her brother, was
in a swing attached to the limb of a tree in
the yard, which, by some means, broke and
they fell to the ground, the brother and the
swing falling on the little girl. She com
planned considerably, and asked to be taken
into the house. She rapidly grew worse
and died about half an hour after the acct
dent occurred.
Henry johnson, a young white man
about Is or 10 years of age, was arrested at
Rome Wednesday night, charged with hav-
ing committed a criminal assault upon the
seven-year-old daughter of Pierce McGin-
mis-. of ForTes%rille If the statements of
the father OF the girl are true the outrage
Is one that demands severe punishment
johnson, however, stoutly proclaims inno-
cence. johnson has taken considerable
stock in the Salvation Army, and was ar
rested at the headquarters during the prog
ress of meeting.
Thursday night when the local freight
train from Montgomery was half a mile
from Bronwood the engineer saw some
thing in the shape of person lying ON the
track and was too near it to stop. On ar
irving at Brentwood he examined his engine
and found a piece of human flesh on the
wheel, and went back where he saw the OBJ
ject on the track, and found a negro ter
ribly manged, so much so that he could not
be identified, and it is not known who the
negro is The impression of some is that he
had been foully dealt with and placed on
the track to cover up the crime.
G. l.. Scott, who resides one and a
half miles southwest of Hartwell, and whose
plantation is on as poor land considered as
nre average of the county, made this year
on one and three eouIths acres of new
ground that had never been entered by a
pillow before, l91 gallons of as fine orange
cane syrup as we ever saw, 900 bundles of
fodder, and fifty bushels of seed. Mr.
Scott can sell his syrup for Soc per gallon
easily, the fodder for 50 per hundred, and
the seed at 81 per bushel. Total proceeds
from one and three-fourths acres, SLY so.
He only used one sack of fertilizer
Sixyt-two years ago on Sept 10, Col S. D.
Betton, of Cuthbert, sailed out from the
mouth of the Potomac river on board the
United States frigate Brsndywine, for
Havre, France, to carry Gen Lafayette
home from his last visit to the United
States. Col. Betton was at that time mid
shipman in the United States Navy He is
now in his SD year, but as vigorous as most
men at go. He will go up to Macon and
join with ''the boys" in paying their re-
spects to jefferson Davis if he is there, on
Oct. 26. Sxty-four years ago he was a
classmate of Mr.. Davis in the West Point
Military Academy.
At Columbus Thursday DIR. w. L. Bull
lard removed pterygium from the left eye
of a young man, Mr. Bright, of Montgom-
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